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Op. 64 No 3, Waltz in A♭ major

Text Compare Notes Sources Description
FE1
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
A - Autograph
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FED - Dubois copy
FES - Stirling copy
GE - German edition
GE1op - First German edtion of Op. 64
GE1Ab - First German edtion of Waltz in A♭ major
GE2op - Second German edition of Op. 64
GE2Ab - Second German edition of Waltz in A♭ major
GE3op - Corrected impression of GE2op
EE - English edition
EEC - Earliest English edition
EEW1 - First English edition
EEW2 - Revised impression of EEW1
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  b. 15

Slur from a1 in A, GE2op (→GE3op) & GE2Ab.

Slur from g2 in FE (→EE)

No 2nd slur in GE1op & GE1Ab

The moment of the division of the slur – after the 3rd or the 4th quaver of the bar – is not completely clearly marked in A. The interpretation of FE (→EE) is graphically less likely and at the same time pianistically less natural, therefore, in the main text we choose the first, definitely more likely possibility. Such slurs are given in GE, yet in GE1op and GE1Ab there is no second slur (until bar 22), which is undoubtedly a mistake. 

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccuracies in FE, Inaccurate slurs in A, Errors in GE

notation: Slurs

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Original in: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris